Elie Wiesel Interview

No words can describe the pain and horror the Jews were put through. The Nazi's were nothing, but wanting to control everything and everyone. When I first heard Elie speak about what happened in Auschwitz I was horrified. The size of that camp was enormous and I couldn't believe that someone would go through that much just to harm innocent citizens, and it was unsettling that the people who passed away from hard work, starvation, suffocated, or even just killed for no reason were treated like dirt. They didn't care what happened to you as long as it was one less person to worry about. I found it interesting that after so many years have passed, Elie still has no answers, it makes me wonder what questions weren't answered, what else would he like to know? After so many years, of going through that hell, I think he deserves some answers as to why and how another human being could do something like this. Over 5 million Jews would die before the camps were destroyed. When he said "I chose this madness," what did he mean by this? Was he referring to the unanswered questions hes had all these years, or from seeing friends, family, neighbors, and other close people he may have known vanished without question. I think that the Nazi's were inhumane, when they lied to the elderly, mothers, and children, and babies were told they were getting showers, but instead they were killed. That's sick and during the movie seeing what they did to those innocent lives, almost made me sick. How could someone sit there and be ok with killing innocent people who didn't do anything wrong to you? I found it interesting that they would shave the hair off of the corpses and people who were still alive, and sold it to make cloths. I know that there were more genocide, but this one stuck with me, I couldn't imagine living in that world where you were hated for no reason. It makes me think "Why was it so important to the Nazi's to do this?" I'd like to ask the soldiers who were in charge how they would feel if it was their mother, father, brother, sister, friends, who were being killed, and I'd like to know what they would say in that situation.